Browse iConference 2010 Papers by Title

This paper explores backstage behavior in videos found by
searching for “drinking and puking” on YouTube. A small
sample of 10 videos was critiqued using the definition of
backstage language behavior found in Goffman’s ...

High-speed broadband facilitates a vast number of beneficial applications such as voice over internet protocol (VoIP), streaming media, gaming, online government and business services, and other interactive services that ...

Different information technologies (ITs) are related in complex ways. How can the relationships among a large number of ITs be described and analyzed in a representative, dynamic, and scalable way? In this study, we employed ...

Current science and technology has produced more and more
publically accessible scientific data. However, little is known
about how the open data trend impacts a scientific community,
specifically in terms of its ...

Effective infomediaries and community engagement can produce a successful environment to service information needs for underserved populations. This paper analyzes data from libraries, telecentres and cybercafés in 25 ...

This paper presents a conceptual model for scholarly research
activity, developed as part of the conceptual modelling work
within the “Preparing DARIAH” European e-Infrastructures
project. It is inspired by cultural-historical ...

Computer Science in North America has embarked on a course unique in academic scholarship. It has turned conferences into repositories of polished work, little of which ever evolves into journal articles. Senior researchers ...

Large-scale aggregations of digital collections from libraries,
archives and museums offer users unprecedented access to
cultural heritage materials. But they also have failed to
incorporate important contextual information ...

This paper proposes a new area of professional practice based on
preservation, required in the LIS profession because of changes in
the ways that libraries operate and of changes in education for
librarianship, as ...

This paper begins by presenting a case that models of behavioral
intention do not provide insight into the core needs of human
beings, and as such, cannot inform designers as to what types of
ICT features and functions ...

Access to information and communications technology (ICT) is
considered important for individuals to fully achieve educational
and economic development goals. In fact, ICT access has become
so important that the lack ...

The impact of scholarly research can be manifested in many different ways, but conventional citation measures are often used to evaluate research impact without distinction. This paper attempts to analyze the misconception ...

Recent studies of large-scale distributed practice in the sciences
and elsewhere have taught us important things about space and
place as props and barriers to distributed collective action, but
they have had relatively ...

While in recent years research has highlighted the rise of inter-organizational collaboration among humanitarian organizations/agencies in the nonprofit sector and has documented issues related to the forming and maintaining ...

Machine Translation (MT) has been identified as a very important related technology for Multilingual Information Access (MLIA). Over the past decade, the usages of MT in MLIA are still largely concentrated on its capabilities ...

Herbaria around the world house millions of plant specimens; botanists and other researchers value these resources as ingredients in biodiversity research. Even when the specimen sheets are digitized and made available ...

This paper addresses the strategies introduced by the College of
Information at the University of North Texas to monitor and begin
implementing approaches to enable the college to move toward
the university’s strategic ...

This comparative case study explores the impact of four “practice
theories” in the separate domains of finance, military strategy,
nursing, and theology, and discusses potential “outputs” in each
field that might be ...

The importance of incentive mechanisms has long been
recognized in sustaining online communities. However,
many existing community systems have rigid systemimposed
incentive mechanisms that preclude user
appropriations ...

Preliminary results of a study of how cybernavigators work to support patrons using computers and the internet in public library locations in the context of a surge in unemployment. Conceptualizes the informatics moment ...